1783 in poetry

===United Kingdom=== • Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously) • William Blake, Poetical Sketches • Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious • Poem on the Industry of the United States of America ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet • April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer • September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician • September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), English poet and novelist • December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873), Puerto Rican poet and playwright ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet • January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author • July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German • July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born , and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet • October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright • November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent • December 12 – John Scott, 53 (born 1731), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson • Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708), American clergyman and poet ==See also==